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Russian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kopъtь.
Pronunciation
Noun
ко́поть • (kópotʹ) f inan (genitive ко́поти, nominative plural ко́поти, genitive plural ко́потей)
- soot, (black) smoke, fume
1899, Максим Горький [Maxim Gorky], Двадцать шесть и одна; English translation from Twenty-Six and One, New York: J. F. Taylor & Company, 1902:Нам бы́ло ду́шно и те́сно жить в ка́менной коро́бке под ни́зким и тяжё́лым потолко́м, покры́тым ко́потью и паути́ной.- Nam býlo dúšno i tésno žitʹ v kámennoj koróbke pod nízkim i tjažólym potolkóm, pokrýtym kópotʹju i pautínoj.
- It was stifling and narrow in our box of stone under the low, heavy ceiling, covered with smoke-black and spider-webs.
Declension
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “копоть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress